Fix your Terrible Hipster Distro when it Breaks (Arch/Artix)

I can't wait to tell my internet friends on R*ddit and 4gag how hard it is to use Arch Linux and how all serious people use Ubuntu because our time is just too valuable to be able to troubleshoot basic problems.

OR affiliate links to things l use:

[cornel]

Lenin yells at old bussiness laptop because it won't open his emails

[samuelschwager]

Luke's mom is also his assistant, a true family business!

[paulhermes]

Luke "Content Creator" Smith

[ashishpatel]

"I just updated my computer and something broke" - BTW I use arch fans.

[strygian]

Young Anakin Boomwalker sits, wearing goggles in his custom arch based pod racer. Looks over “Now THIS is content creation!”

[bsatyam]

1 week away from the internet and his urge to upload for upcummies is stonger than ever

[EugenioMVigo]

The right long-term thing to do in this case is actually reporting the problem to the neomutt package maintainer. This is the usual case of an ABI change that requires dependent programs to be recompiled. That's one of the maintainer's tasks. By reporting it you help Arch as a whole.

[awalvie]

Pull Up neomutt
"Dating Advice"
a chad after all

[axalius]

I'm so glad, xbps automatically detects those conflicts and refuses to install / break the packages.

[henriaunin]

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as update, is in fact, GNU/update, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus update.

[bruderdasisteinschwerermangel]

I feel like it should be mentioned that some packages will have version specific versions available for compatibility.
For example lua53 or python2
You can use these instead of downgrading, in case you need a specific old version

[slippydouglas]

At least Arch isn’t already broken on fresh install— I’ve installed Ubuntu a handful of times over the past decade, and in every version I’ve tried within 5 minutes of use, something will crash, usually some background process, sometimes preventing use of some of the main GUI. So I’ve never actually used Ubuntu for any practical purpose— I started on Slackware, stuck with Debian for over a decade, and now am getting by feet wet with Arch.

[bpnn]

You're my favourite content creator Luke.

[MSK]

3:05 I want Luke to make videos about answering his email like Strongbad from Homestar Runner

[josephmakin]

Big up Ludovido Einaudi. Luke has good musical taste :)

[GooogleGoglee]

Unfortunately is true the Arch community are too strict on giving out good hints and suggestions if you slightly get out of their "pure environment" installation.

[xA]

If you installed a binary package for an application and after a system update receive a missing shared object library error, sometimes the easiest solution is to create a symbolic link from the expected shared object library version to the currently installed shared object library. This only works when the interface to the library calls have not been change by the developer. When I install software I add a note to my system documentation so that in the event I reinstall the entire system afresh, for whatever reason, I have a record of the steps to reproduce an identical system.

[jongeduard]

When a thing like this happens, first question you want to ask yourself is whether is it's an AUR package or another self-made addition to the system or not.
However, the second question you need to ask, is whether you suffer from a partial update. Which can happen when you use the wrong pacman commands, as described by the Arch wiki, but it can also be not your fault: having a bad mirror. This is what I have had more than once.
When suspecting those issues, you really want to refresh your mirrorlist. Personally I use reflector as a tool for that, but you can also select your mirrors manually.

[auronkardek]

Flag the package as out-of-date on the AUR too, it generally doesn't take much time for a package to be updated.

[ertwro]

Or create a symlink to the new file with the old file's name. Crazy, I know.